DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Website

clickhouse.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

sqream.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2015

1992

2010

2017

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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